Ok, I left off on Wednesday so I will start with Thursday now!

THURSDAY:
classes all day... again.  Then we had a THREE HOUR night lecture from one of our tour guides about our South East Asia tour... I mean it was interesting but I just had a lot of other things that I needed to get done.  So we didnt get back to the apt until around 10 that night.. and I stayed up till almost two again finishing up my speech that was due the next day.. ugh.

FRIDAY:
Had classes for half of the day.. My speech went alright that morning.  I need to stand a bit more still, and I should have practiced my speech.. I just didn't have time:  I finished writing my notecards like ten minutes before my speech.. haha.  But She said I did good!  Hopefully I'll see my grade for it tomorrow.  After classes I came back and made lunch and chilled.. and later Me, Rachel, Jami, and Andrea made our way over to the bus station and then to Harbourtown (outlet mall).. and omg.. The bus was $4.70!  ahhh!!  For a student its supposed to be 1.90 but the grouchy driver wouldn't accept our international student IDs... so whatever.  I bought a $40 dollar brown, leather belt for only $10!!  So that was steal.. And I got two coloured Vneck tshirts w/ a pocket 2/$10.. so not too bad!  [side note: just noticed that I am starting to automatically type the "ou" in words that normally 'we' spell with just an "o".. Its an Aussie thing.. I'm seeing it too much that I am actually doing it.. ha]  But the outlets overall kind of let us down!  We went to a few different name brand stores and they just didn't have what we were looking for at all.  So oh well.. at least I wasn't tempted to spend a whole lot of money.  After Harbourtown (how they spell it here!) We took the one our bus journey back to broadbeach.. Oh and there was this SMOKIN HOT guy on our bus.. lol.  He looked like Christiano Ronaldo; hehe.  He got off a stop before us though.. When we got off we went and ordered a pizza with my buy one get one free coupon.. Ok another side note:  They have MUCH MUCH MUCH BETTER DEALS here than we do!! I'll get to that underneath another day... The only other thing I did that day was study and watch a movie with the girls :)

SATURDAY:
After sleeping in until TWO in the afternoon.. I finally got up and did not do a whole lot.. It was a really relaxing day.  Around three, Laura, Rachel, Chelsea, and I walked around town a little and looked in the stores.. I bought a couple little souvenirs and some postcards.. A total of maybe 5 dollars.. Then we headed back to the apt to make ourselves dinner and to study and little.. I made myself some homemade mac&cheese! :)  It was good!  Later that night, even though I had things to do and I was in the laziest mood ever!!  Andrea coaxed me into dressing cute and heading out to Surfers Paradise to..... well... I'll leave that up to your imagination; haha.  We had a lot of fun though!  Even though it was raining.. Jamie, Andrea, Ashley, Sun, and I took a bus there.. later Taylor, Stacey, Jess, and Jordan met up with us.. and I walked back along the beach with the second group.. It was about a 20min walk, but it was fun!  Walking barefoot on the beach in our dresses :)

SUNDAY:  woke up at 930.  It was raining.... OF COURSE!  (we had not had one good day for the beach yet.. when we weren't busy with other things first)  But around 11 a bunch of us decided to go play on the playgrounds in the rain.. The playgrounds are WAYYYYY cooler than ours are; just to throw that out there!  They're awesome... and even more awesome in the rain.  So we did that, then played in the ocean while it was raining, and then got in the heated tub & hot tub at our apartments when we got back :D  It was a lot of fun!!  Then we all went back to our apts to make food then took our food to one person's apt to eat together... Later we were planning on going to Hillsong (Christian church/group that originates in Australia) but that was this big ordeal that didn't work out.. maybe I'll throw the details on here later.. So we decided to go back to our rooms and study or do whatever for a bit before our church service in the Mill's room.  Church/Communion lasted about an hour and a half, and we had snack afterwards.. Thennnn I hung out with Carter, Barrett, Jim, ad Christy in the apt and watched TV and listened to music and just hung out... thennnn later went to my apt, met up with Laura, Carter, Taylor, Marcus, and Ellis and we took a little adventure to the 7/11 where I bought a coffee for ONE dollar and a soda... ok we got two one liter sodas for 5 bucks.. these both cost like 450 each.. we got two for five.. that was their deal!  Which made no sense because the smaller sizes were 370.. so whateverrrr, I wasn't complaining!! :)  So I took my cheap soda and coffee back to the room and I worked on homework while everyone else watched a movie.. Later Savannah and I headed up to the 16th floor and watched Lost with a few of the boys because we were bored..
OK!!! So about three in the morning last night/ sunday night/ monday morning.. and Michelle and I were standing in the kitchen... She was facing me and I was facing the window when all the sudden I look out and see this giant blue/green flash of light!  I screamed for her to look but by the time she turned around it was gone.. She was laughing hysterically at me, and I was trying to convince her it was real when it happened again!  This time is just wasn't as bright and by the time I got her to look it was gone again.... can I say WEIRDEST thing I have seen in my entire life!!!! I want to know what It was soooooo bad.. I even googled it, but didn't really get any answers.. It was just so surreal.. It was weird.  I can't explain it.. Just a blue/green flash and it was gone.. I thought it was lightning at first.. but it wasn't.. Guess I'll never know.. But it was real.. Not matter how much everyone else thinks I am nuts I know it was real!

MONDAY:  woke up around 930.. or 10. and...... get this...... IT WAS SUNNY!! For the first time in two weeks it was nice enough for the beach.. and It wasn't just nice, it was WONDERFUL!  It was the best beach day EVER.  We headed out around 1030 and stayed until a little after 12 before we walked back to the apt to make lunch and I had a skype date ;-)  Then around 2 something I walked back to the beach and layed out a while longer and we had ourselves a little photo shoot! I absolutely loved today.. I love the beach!

Now I am freshly showered and sitting on the couch writing this instead of doing homework.. I have tons to do!  So I am going to bid you all farewell!  And It wont be that long before the next time I blog... I PROMISE!!!  We've just been jammed packed with work this past week or so.  But its about to chill out for me at least a little bit.  Hope you all have a wonderful night/day!! Much Love <3